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197426518Stony Brook Long Island New York: The Museums at Stony Brook 1974. 20 pages; catalog for this exhibition; illustrated in sepia tones with slightly-larger-than thumbnail works of the artist. Includes section "The Unfinished Autobiography of William Sidney Mount" 3 pages. Accompanying each artwork's description is a title of piece media size and good specific-to-piece background; 135 items listed. Foreword by Melville A. Kitchin Curator 19th century American painting; artworks exhibited were the property of the Stony Brook Museums. Approx. 8 1/2" x 11" size illustrated stapled softcover; light wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The Museums at Stony Brook paperback books
1969102531969. Softcover. VG one copy with sticker removed from inside back cover & back cover two small black marks on title page small tear at bottom back cover. Color wraps. 114 pp. 5 color 71 bw plates. Includes several fold-out tables. Each picture is annotated. Lists 47 works. Bibliography. unknown books
1987177543Paris: Ministère de la culture et de la communication 1987. Softcover. VG light shelfwear to wraps corners bumped pages otherwise clean and clear. White wraps with bw illustrations on front and rear red lettering 125 pp 162 bw illustrations throughout. Text in French. "This exhibition was produced by the Réunion des musées nationaux with the assistance of the technical services of the Louvre Museum" -translation from title page verso. Includes bibliographical references pages 115-119 and index. Catalogue of an exhibition held June 12 through September 21 1987. Ministère de la culture et de la communication unknown books
1974131993Paris: Editions des Musees Nationaux 1974. Softcover. VG. edge-wear to covers & spine edges back cover scuffed. previous owners name to inside cover. Color illustrated wraps. 164 pp. 18 color many BW plates; select color. In French. Catalogue for 1974 Orangerie des Tuileries exhibition. Exhibition held July 19 to October 14 1974. Editions des Musees Nationaux unknown books
1995188821La Mandragora 1995-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Clean has a good binding and crisp pages no marks or notations. Light wear. TP HS La Mandragora paperback books
1997181454Glasgow: Glasgow Museums 1997. Softcover. VG slight bumping to corners. Illustrated glossy wraps; 32 pages : color illustrations. Exhibition catalogue held May 23 - September 7 1997. Includes bibliographical references. Glasgow Museums unknown books
200032360New York: M. T. Train / Scala Books 2000. Hardcover. VG. Glossy blue illus. boards. vii 250 pp. Profuse color plates. Includes fine selections of Asian art from Harvard University ART MUSEUMS. 201 ANNOTATED ITEMS ARE LISTED WITH MANY MORE BRIEFLY LISTED AT THE REAR and a one-page introduction by collector John Goelet. Lavishly illustrated. M. T. Train / Scala Books hardcover books
2000271832Copenhagen: Living Architecture 2000. hardcover. fine/very good. Nagel Per. Hundreds of color photographs. 189pp. 4to black cloth d.w.; dust wrapper lightly rubbed and with small tear to upper rear margin Copenhagen: Living Architecture 2000. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Living Architecture unknown books
1975131939Genève Geneva Switzerland: Cabinet des estampes Musées d'art er d'histoire Geneve 1975. Softcover. VG- ex-private library with stamps on cover and text block. Black and white pictorial wraps. 174 pp. 131 bw plates and one in color. Text in French. Quite scarce. Catalogue for an exhibition held 17 October - 16 November 1975 at the Cabinet des estampes Musee d'art et d'histoire Geneve. Cabinet des estampes, Musées d'art er d'histoire Geneve paperback books
1969131940Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux 1969. Softcover. VG- ex-museum library with ink stamp on front cover or side. Minor wear and minor age toning to cover. White wraps with color illustration. 52 pp plus plates. 16 BW plates. Text in French. Exhibition at the Orangerie des Tuileries. Catalogue lists 295 works. Reunion des Musees Nationaux unknown books
1995175624Marseille France: Reunion des Musees Nationaux 1995. Softcover. VG light shelf-wear/scratches to back cover. back cover corner has minor rubbing & crease. pgs edge-toned. pgs clean & unmarked. flexible glued purple wraps w/ cover illustration & printing. 191 pages w/ bw & color illustrations. In French. Reunion des Musees Nationaux paperback books
2002167104Strasbourg: Musees de Strasbourg 2002. Softcover. 189 pages. Text in French with contributions by Patrick Javault Georges Heck Maurizio Lazzarato Sandra Lischi Philippe Dubois Francoise Parfat and Anna Marx. . Includes illustrations of works by Vito Acconci Dennis Adams John Baldessari Roderick Buchanan Wim Delvage Rodney Graham Gary Hill Mike Kelley Paul McCarthy Les Levine Bruce Nauman Tony Oursler Nam June Paik Martha Rosler Bill Viola and others. A fine copy in wrappers. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Musees de Strasbourg unknown books
1954245843Brussels: Musees Royaux D'Art et D'Histoire Bruxelles 1954. hardcover. very good/very good. Profusely illustrated in black & white with photos of artifacts. 8vo stiff pictorial wrapper wax paper jacket for protection. Wrapper is lightly worn. Brussels: Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire Bruxelles 1954. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Musees Royaux D'Art et D'Histoire Bruxelles unknown books
197154361Brussells: Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts. Very Good. 1971. Paperback. Bruxelles: Musees Royaux Des Beaux-Arts De Belgique 1971. 128pp.illustrations wrappers Ex-museum Library light toning to wrappers Very Good. . Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts paperback books
1990250078Brussels: Musee Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 1990. hardcover. very good-. In French. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. 426 pages 4to blue pictorial-stamped cloth front cover bowed and cocked; tiny damp-stain on the right edge. Brussels: Musee Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 1990. A very good- copy with a pristine interior.<br/><br/> Musee Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique unknown books
1233London. K.G. Saur. 1993. 4to. Edition 1993/94 I. Volume/Band 1. Museums Public Galleries Associations. In good condtion. unknown books
1987274474Stony Brook: Museums at Stony Brook 1987. paperback. very good-. Many Illus. several in color. 174pp. 4to pr. wrs. pages slightly wavy throughout. Stony Brook Long Island: The Museums at Stony Brook 1987.<br/><br/> Museums at Stony Brook unknown books
1986274473Stony Brook: Museums at Stony Brook 1986. paperback. very good-. Many photo Illus. several in color. 127pp. 4to pr. wrs. many pages slightly wavy in right margins otherwise very good. Stony Brook: Museums at Stony Brook 1986.<br/><br/> Museums at Stony Brook unknown books
17594188<p>Florence: Nella stamperia Imperiale 1759</p><p>Octavo: 19 x 14.3 cm. p. xiii i 236 1 errata; Collation: a8 -a8 blank A-P8 -P8 blank Complete.<br /></p><p>FIRST EDITION.</p><p>A crisp bright copy in original three-quarter calf and speckled paper over boards spine with floral ornaments. The text is adorned with attractive woodcut initials and headpieces.</p><p>First edition of the first guide to one of the world's most important museums. This guide to the Medici collections of the Uffizi Gallery was written by the museum's first custodian who had been appointed after the gallery's conversion to a public institution under the terms established by the last of the Medici the Palatine Electrix Anna Maria Ludovica in 1737. The custodian Giuseppe Bianchi is a notorious figure. He was later found to have robbed the Uffizi of works of precious metal which he melted down and sold. He was condemned to exile for his perfidy. See Barrochi and Bertelà "Danni e furti di Giuseppe Bianchi in Galleria Labyrinthos 13/16 1988-89 321-336.</p><p>Bianchi's guide published in the same year that the British Museum opened to the public is an important record of the disposition and scope of the newly "public" collections in the period prior to their dramatic reorganization by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Lorraine 1780-82. In some instances the notices in the guide are the earliest extant record for some works in the collections. The portable and scholarly guide is similar in format and composition to Pasquale Massi's 1792 guide to the Vatican Museums which Bianchi's guide predates by a generation.</p><p>Bianchi prefaces his tour with a history of the construction of the Uffizi palace designed and begun by Vasari in 1560 and completed –following Vasari's design- by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti in 1581. This is followed by a description of the various elements that make up the entire palace complex. </p><p>The formal guide to the galleries begins with a detailed description of the decorative program of the frescoed ceilings and the series of portraits that line the walls beneath them. This is followed by descriptions and commentaries on each of the 62 statues and 92 busts housed in the galleries in this period. Francesco I was the first Medici to add ancient marbles to the newly completed Uffizi and these ancient sculptures were juxtaposed with contemporary Renaissance masterpieces. Thus we find in Bianchi's guide the famous Medici Venus the Niobe group Bandonelli's Laocöon and Michelangelo's Bacchus. The sarcophagus of Hippolytus is absent since it was still in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in 1759.</p><p>Next Bianchi takes us into the Camera dei Pittori. Yet here he is unable to give a comprehensive discussion. This is due in large part to the sheer size of the collection but also to the fact that the painting collection has changed so much over the years some of the paintings having been transferred to the Pitti Palace others that formerly hung in the Palace having come to the Gallery and others still having been given as gifts to great lords or used to decorate villas. Moreover the paintings are in many media: oil tempera fresco and encaustic. Bianchi decides to focus on the collection of artist self-portraits which are divided into the three principal schools arrived at by the consensus of the most famous scholars of the art of painting: Romana Lombarda and Oltramontana. Here we find the famous self-portrait of Raphael.</p><p>From here we pause briefly in the Camera delle Porcellane before entering the Camera degl' Idoli with its collection of 300 Greek Roman Etruscan and Egyptian bronzes which Bianchi considers in detail. Next we enter the Camera delle Arti where we find paintings by Raphael Andrea del Sarto Leonardo Botticelli Mantegna and Fra Angelico. In the Camera de' Fiamminghi are housed 140 paintings by northern European artists: Albrecht Dürer Lucas Cranach Van Dyck Brueghel and Callot among others. </p><p>The German Cabinet:</p><p>The center of the Camera delle Arti is occupied by a wondrous machine for which Bianchi provides a two-page description. It is a magnificent octagonal cabinet over nine feet tall incorporating a clock a pneumatic organ and moving figures in silver. The architectural details are all composed of granatiglia an ebony-like luxury hardwood and the surfaces of the cabinet are inlaid with precious stone including lapis jasper and verde antico. The cabinet is adorned with painted scenes of the Old and New Testaments which are rendered so minutely and with such fine skill that they are believed to be by the school of Brueghel. Within the cabinet is a machine that rotates showing four scenes: birds and arabesques executed in stone-inlay; a wax relief of the deposition "the work of the immortal Buonarroti"; an amber relief of Jesus and the Apostles; and an amber crucifixion scene. The final ornament of the machine is a mirror box that produces an infinite number of reflections. Bianchi tells us that the cabinet was made in Germany "around a century ago" and was purchased by Grand Duke Ferdinando II 1610-1670.</p><p>The sixth camera houses mathematical instruments and a pair of celestial and terrestrial globes. Among the marvels here are an enormous magnet and a huge burning mirror. It was with the addition of the mathematical and scientific collections that the Uffizi began to take on the aspect of a wunderkammer.</p><p>Next we enter the heart of the museum the Tribuna the octagonal room that houses the most important treasures of the Uffizi. Bianchi begins with individual descriptions of the 14 marble statues among them the Medici Venus the Wrestlers the Dancing Satyr the Arrotino and the infant Hercules. After a brief description of the room itself designed by Bernardo Buontalenti for Ferdinando III Bianchi lists the artists whose paintings adorn the room: Correggio Titian Veronese Parmigianino and above all Raphael. There is also a detailed description of the famous table of pietre dure. </p><p>Leaving the Tribuna we come to the Camera dell' Ermafrodita the focal point of which is the hermaphrodite in Parian marble acquired by Ferdinando II from the Ludovisi Collection. Our tour concludes with brief visits to the room of medals the arsenal and the room of the ciborium with the incomplete parts of that structure created by Buontalenti for the Medici mausoleum in San Lorenzo.</p><p>Cicognara 4202; Murray Museums: their history and their use I 241; Schlosser 516. Literature: Florida Forestieri in Galleria: visitatori direttori e custodi agli Uffizi dal 1769 al 1785</p> Nella stamperia Imperiale, books
17673939Paris:: M. Lambert for Briasson 1767. SOLE EDITION. Three tall octavo volumes:. 19.5 x 12.8 cm. Vol I: xxxvi 571 pages.; Vol II: vj 656 pages; Vol III: vi 290 286 1 pp. Collation: I. a-b8 c2 A-Z8 Aa-Mm8 Nn6 plus 22 plates; II. a3 A-Z8 Aa-Ss8; III. a3 A-S8 T4 a-s8 plus 8 plates Bound in contemporary mottled calf spines gilt with morocco labels light wear small imperfections. Internally all three volumes are in excellent condition. All 30 plates are crisp and in fine impressions. First and sole edition of this comprehensive catalogue of the collection of Pedro Francisco Dávila. The Dávila catalog as it has become known describes 8096 mineral specimens that encompass a large range of localities including a suite of specimens from Potosà in Spanish America as well as many items from Canada Mexico and Paraguay. In addition the catalog lists 5253 shells 600 preserved animals 101 plants 3915 fossils 154 bezoars and calculi and 402 books. Over 12000 prints and engravings 1741 original artworks 441 maps as well as various scientific instruments and precious stones are also described. "Pedro Francisco Dávila possessor of the largest collection of natural history specimens in Paris and wishing to establish an institution in Spain to preserve it approached King Carlos III of Spain. But political difficulties and an approaching war with England distracted the king who declined the purchase. Because of debts incurred building the collection creditors forced Dávila to put the accumulation up for auction in Paris. For this purpose a detailed collection catalog was required. Dávila had already written many descriptions but it was his introduction through Balthasar Sage to the young Romé de l'Isle that created this remarkable record of the collection. "Romé de l'Isle took the existing material added considerably to the mineralogical descriptions and put the catalog into publishable form. In this task he was assisted by Abbé Duguat who helped with the mineralogical descriptions and Abbé Gua de Malves 1712-1786 who described the shells. Through their efforts two volumes describing natural history specimens were produced one of which was entirely devoted to minerals. In addition a third volume written by Romé de l'Isle probably with assistance from Pierre Remy describes the fossils artwork and books. The published catalog provides a detailed insight into his collection his special tastes and preferences. The major value of the collection lay in its superb mineral specimens many of which were finely crystallized examples. Romé de l'Isle fully described the many fine mineralogical specimens which included examples of native silver from Norway cassiterite from the Dutch East Indies crocoite from Siberia pyrite from Columbia and calcite from Saxony etc. Dávila had been a collector for over 20 years when his accumulation was auctioned. In that time he or his agents had acquired specimens at other auctions including those that liquidated the collections of Albertus Seba in 1752 the Abbé Joly de Fleury in 1755 Claude Geoffroy in 1753 and others. Dávila's catalog received wide distribution in Paris London Amsterdam Rotterdam and Basle. This helped push the total realized by Dávila to over 800000 Spanish reales more than enough to pay of his creditors and to finance a second collection which he immediately began to build. Within two or three years he had again amassed a sizable collection specializing in minerals and selected with more knowledge and experience than his first collection had been. Once again he dreamed of establishing the cabinet in Madrid. In October 1771 this became reality when King Carlos III agreed to take over his collections with Dávila serving as director for life. This enormous collection eventually passed into the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid where Dávila's specimens are still preserved today."The Mineralogical Record Conlon 67:1238; Nissen ZBI 1050; Sinkankas 1594; Wilson History of Mineral Collecting 1994: 136-40 166 & 209 provides a detailed history of the collections M. Lambert for Briasson, unknown books
1980180995Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux 1980. Softcover. VG/G covers show wear and some foxing on edge of pages. Corners slightly bumped. Illustrated wraps. Approximately 500 pages : illustrations some color. Includes bibliographical references pages 142-147-Includes index. Accompanied exhibition Feb 5-April 1980. Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist most well known for his images of women. Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux unknown books
196917890scsOttawa: Queen’s Printer for Canada 1969. Octavo stapled wrappers paperbound 10 pp. Near-Fine with former-owner signature. Contents: The Ecosystem; The Ecological Population; Quantifiable Variables; Other Variables; Culture and Ecology. Queen’s Printer for Canada, 1969. unknown books
19262293324Privately Printed / Murray Printing Co. Limited 1926. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited edition #933 of 1500 copies. Former copy of the Clifton Springs Medical Library with a few marks. 1926 Hard Cover. xxxviii 633 1 pp. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece of William Osler. A collection of essays published to honor the influential physician William Osler co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler's creation of the first residency program and emphasis on teaching students through clinical experience rather than lectures led many to call him the father of modern medicine. Privately Printed / Murray Printing Co., Limited hardcover books
2000352012000. Softcover. VG Small sticker on back cover; Sticker residue on spine; Otherwise as new. Pictorial wraps. 528 pp. 343 bw and color plates`. Text in French. Includes critical analysis of oeuvre and chronology. paperback books
1997135589Paris: Paris-Musees Gallimard/Electa 1997. Softcover. VG Ex-library with few markings and label bookplate at front inside cover pages are slightly tanned at top margin otherwise very nice. Black & white wraps 236 pp. many color & BW illus. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with a 1997 exhibition in Paris. Illustrations are supplemented by explanatory text. "If you love love you'll love the surrealism" is the focus. Paris-Musees, Gallimard/Electa paperback books
